In Nanak Bani Professor Harjeet Singh Gill has interpreted in free verse the
compositions of Guru NÄnak (1469-1539). These are meditations and
reflections of Guru NÄnak which form a major part of the Adi Granth
composed in classical Indian rÄgÄs. Within the dialectics of anthropology and
cosmology and within the parameters of metonymic observations of the
religious and the profane world, there is a certain metaphoric articulation, a
certain divine communication in a language that is both simple and transparent,
both allegoric and transcendental.
Translation from one language to another is a very difficult task. In fact,
it is an impossible exercise. The music of word and thought, the rhythm and
resonance of the universe of conceptual discourse of one language can never be
communicated in another idiom. And yet, throughout the history of ideas,
across different cultures, translated texts have played a very important role. The
excellence and also the inadequacy of the translation is an invitation to the
discerning reader to the domain of the rhythmic reverberations of the original
text. Maybe these interpretations will serve this purpose!

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